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A night out with the stars!
See page 5.
Weather
Flagstaff Conditions
Mostly sunny skies with
temperatures in the upper
70’s this weekend.
Sedona Conditions
Mostly sunny skies with
temperatures in the 90’s
this weekend.
T h e
L u m b e r j a c k
A sludont tujwsjKipcjf solving ilw? Northern An/ona commumtv, Flagstaff. (602) 523-4921 Wednesday, June 22, 1983
Hughes chairs council
Hold It!
Since the placement of the new stop signs at the cor­ner
of Dome Road and University Drive, many
motorists have been unaware of the signs' presence.
Dave Eskridge/The Lumberjack
The stop signs were installed to allow traffic enter­ing
Dome Road from University Drive easier access
and to limit the danger to vehicles turning north or
south at the intersection.
Fear on ocean
By Todd Bria
Contributing Reporter
NAU President Eugene
M. Hughes has been named
chairman of the Big Sky
Conference President’s
Council.
The position was announc­ed
at the spring meeting of
the Big Sky Conference in
Reno, Nevada.
‘"The position is made on
a rotating basis and lasts for
one year,” Hughes said.
The President’s Council
meets twice a year, once in
Odgen, Utah, and once at
the site of one of the Big Sky
Conference schools.
In an an exclusive inter­view
with The Lumberjack,
Hughes discussed the impact
the position will have on
NAU.
“The council will be voting
on my recommendations on
NAU’s future athletic pro­grams,”
he said. “ Thes*
recommendations will be
based on a study I commis­sioned
last spring.”
The decision on NAU’s
future athletic programs will
be made at the Council’*
December meeting in Ogden,
Utah, Hughes said.
Hughes will also be work­ing
to enter NAU’s women s
athletic teams into a con­ference.
“ At this time NAU
and Nevada-Reno women’s
teams are not competing in
Big Sky Conference
play,’ ’Hughes said.
“ I would like to see tho
NAU women’s athletic teams
play in a conference.”
Another part of Hughes'job
will be to vote as a member
of the National Collegiate
Athletic Association, Divi­sion
1 conference.
Hughes position on the
council will be to decide
policy for the Big Sky
Conference.
Vietnamese endures Pacific struggle
Editor's N ote: Vinh Ly has exhibited great
courage in his life. In 1978, at the age of
14, Ly left his homeland, Vietnam, escap­ing
by boat onto the open sea with 200 other
refugees. Since his arrival in the United
States in 1979, Ly has mastered the English
language and as a presidential scholar, was
honored this month by President Reagan on
the lawn of the White House. He is at NAU
to attend the Urban Journalism Workshop,
and be plans to attend Brigham Young
University as a linguistics major. This is the
story o f his incredible journey.
Vinh Ly
Contributing Reporter
Often a person lives under perfect con­ditions
and freedom, but he does not com­prehend
or perceive clearly what is
valuable, and sometimes he may even
defame or criticize his circumstance
unreasonably.
Then one day when all of his rights and
freedoms have been plundered by others,
he decides to leave, to escape from the op­pressive
atmosphere to where he can
breathe freely like the birds who settle in
peaceful lands.
Having stayed in Kien Giang province
for ten days, I boarded a fishing boat. The
boat, KG 0106, was 18 meters long and five
meters wide and carried 202 passengers.
To insure our secrecy and to avoid coast
guard surveillance, all the passengers were
required to squat in the hold like sardines
in the can. The condition was extremely
uncomfortabfe.
I could imagine this puny fishing boat
being swallowed by the depthless mouth of
the Pacific. Yet I was aware that there
would be hope, a chance for survival.
The boat silently started away at mid­night.
I allowed my eyes to close without
fear of where I would be in the time to
come. I fell into a deep sleep.
I awoke to find myself surrounded by the
darkness of night. I was refreshed by the
tender winds. As I looked around, people
were lying all over the deck. Some were sit­ting
deep in slumber.
As soon as the entire community of Viet­nam
had fallen under communist control
in April 1975, the unprecedented brutality
of the communists became apparent.
South Vietnam had prospered with the
development of internal and foreign trade.
Yet, after 1975, the communist regime at­tempted
“ to build a castle in the air” by
regulating all trade and confiscating all
merchandise, lands and property of the
people.
The consequence was a disaster.
The first splendid sun-ray flashed and
woke me up. I found myself wet with dew
and realized that I had sat by the bov\
dreaming of the past all night long.
Now it was the first morning that I could
really observe the ocean. It was just
beautiful. The high sea water was a dark
blue hue which trembled me as 1 thought
of its depth.
Before my eyes were many kinds of fish
that I had never seen before. Some were as
small as my thumb and others would range
up to two-fifths of my boat in length.
The afternoon sun was shining brightly,
threatening to evaporate the ocean with its
unbearable heat. Its fires blinded our eyes
and blackened our skin.
Seasickness was another difficulty that
caused many hygiene problems. These pro-b
o a t , see pg. 2

* ★
A night out with the stars!
See page 5.
Weather
Flagstaff Conditions
Mostly sunny skies with
temperatures in the upper
70’s this weekend.
Sedona Conditions
Mostly sunny skies with
temperatures in the 90’s
this weekend.
T h e
L u m b e r j a c k
A sludont tujwsjKipcjf solving ilw? Northern An/ona commumtv, Flagstaff. (602) 523-4921 Wednesday, June 22, 1983
Hughes chairs council
Hold It!
Since the placement of the new stop signs at the cor­ner
of Dome Road and University Drive, many
motorists have been unaware of the signs' presence.
Dave Eskridge/The Lumberjack
The stop signs were installed to allow traffic enter­ing
Dome Road from University Drive easier access
and to limit the danger to vehicles turning north or
south at the intersection.
Fear on ocean
By Todd Bria
Contributing Reporter
NAU President Eugene
M. Hughes has been named
chairman of the Big Sky
Conference President’s
Council.
The position was announc­ed
at the spring meeting of
the Big Sky Conference in
Reno, Nevada.
‘"The position is made on
a rotating basis and lasts for
one year,” Hughes said.
The President’s Council
meets twice a year, once in
Odgen, Utah, and once at
the site of one of the Big Sky
Conference schools.
In an an exclusive inter­view
with The Lumberjack,
Hughes discussed the impact
the position will have on
NAU.
“The council will be voting
on my recommendations on
NAU’s future athletic pro­grams,”
he said. “ Thes*
recommendations will be
based on a study I commis­sioned
last spring.”
The decision on NAU’s
future athletic programs will
be made at the Council’*
December meeting in Ogden,
Utah, Hughes said.
Hughes will also be work­ing
to enter NAU’s women s
athletic teams into a con­ference.
“ At this time NAU
and Nevada-Reno women’s
teams are not competing in
Big Sky Conference
play,’ ’Hughes said.
“ I would like to see tho
NAU women’s athletic teams
play in a conference.”
Another part of Hughes'job
will be to vote as a member
of the National Collegiate
Athletic Association, Divi­sion
1 conference.
Hughes position on the
council will be to decide
policy for the Big Sky
Conference.
Vietnamese endures Pacific struggle
Editor's N ote: Vinh Ly has exhibited great
courage in his life. In 1978, at the age of
14, Ly left his homeland, Vietnam, escap­ing
by boat onto the open sea with 200 other
refugees. Since his arrival in the United
States in 1979, Ly has mastered the English
language and as a presidential scholar, was
honored this month by President Reagan on
the lawn of the White House. He is at NAU
to attend the Urban Journalism Workshop,
and be plans to attend Brigham Young
University as a linguistics major. This is the
story o f his incredible journey.
Vinh Ly
Contributing Reporter
Often a person lives under perfect con­ditions
and freedom, but he does not com­prehend
or perceive clearly what is
valuable, and sometimes he may even
defame or criticize his circumstance
unreasonably.
Then one day when all of his rights and
freedoms have been plundered by others,
he decides to leave, to escape from the op­pressive
atmosphere to where he can
breathe freely like the birds who settle in
peaceful lands.
Having stayed in Kien Giang province
for ten days, I boarded a fishing boat. The
boat, KG 0106, was 18 meters long and five
meters wide and carried 202 passengers.
To insure our secrecy and to avoid coast
guard surveillance, all the passengers were
required to squat in the hold like sardines
in the can. The condition was extremely
uncomfortabfe.
I could imagine this puny fishing boat
being swallowed by the depthless mouth of
the Pacific. Yet I was aware that there
would be hope, a chance for survival.
The boat silently started away at mid­night.
I allowed my eyes to close without
fear of where I would be in the time to
come. I fell into a deep sleep.
I awoke to find myself surrounded by the
darkness of night. I was refreshed by the
tender winds. As I looked around, people
were lying all over the deck. Some were sit­ting
deep in slumber.
As soon as the entire community of Viet­nam
had fallen under communist control
in April 1975, the unprecedented brutality
of the communists became apparent.
South Vietnam had prospered with the
development of internal and foreign trade.
Yet, after 1975, the communist regime at­tempted
“ to build a castle in the air” by
regulating all trade and confiscating all
merchandise, lands and property of the
people.
The consequence was a disaster.
The first splendid sun-ray flashed and
woke me up. I found myself wet with dew
and realized that I had sat by the bov\
dreaming of the past all night long.
Now it was the first morning that I could
really observe the ocean. It was just
beautiful. The high sea water was a dark
blue hue which trembled me as 1 thought
of its depth.
Before my eyes were many kinds of fish
that I had never seen before. Some were as
small as my thumb and others would range
up to two-fifths of my boat in length.
The afternoon sun was shining brightly,
threatening to evaporate the ocean with its
unbearable heat. Its fires blinded our eyes
and blackened our skin.
Seasickness was another difficulty that
caused many hygiene problems. These pro-b
o a t , see pg. 2